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My dearest Weezer,

We both know we have a history. We don’t need to go too heavily into detail, but the last time I heard from you, you made a record that sounded like someone let loose a pre-fight UFC fighter with a machete into my cochlea.

I don’t know if you know this, but I responded by using copies of “Raditude” ($2.98 on Amazon, everybody!) as projectiles, throwing them at stray hipsters outside of my apartment to get them back to their studio spaces in the basement of Twin Donuts in Allston. (Yelling “Shoo!” and “Free Animal Collective show and 1980s cardigans roughly two miles away from my apartment in any direction!” stopped working after a while.)

But let’s not dwell on the past, baby girls. It’s time to kiss and make up.

I write to you offering a truce.

Your new album, Hurley, was assigned a release date yesterday. It’s coming out September 14th, and your lead singer, Rivers Cuomo, says, “There’s definitely going to be more raw rock energy on this one.”

“Like Pinkerton? We liked Pinkerton, just make another one like that.“

Exactly.

Look, we don’t know what’s going on, Rivers. There’s a lot of speculation that you’re just very good at reciting your life in a relatable way -- and you’ve always been very good at reciting your life in a relatable way -- but you just don’t connect with the modern man anymore because you live the high life in L.A.

Maybe we just liked it when you were singing about places we already know.

About the author

Ben Collins can't help but search beyond Feist for the zeitgeist of Today's Soundtrack, his pick of a song or songs capturing the mood or events of the moment. His musical tastes vary from Strawberry Fields to The Magnetic Fields, from Low to Skee-Lo. A North Shore native, Ben has worked at The Boston Globe and Spin and is an Emerson grad. Make your own nominations to him at ben.t.collins@comcast.net or on Twitter @globesoundtrack.
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